Re: Copying from IDE to SATA
- From: "Rob Nicholson" <rob.nicholson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 14:30:00 +0100
1. Will XP recognise my SATA drive if I plug it in or do I have to install
drivers for it. I know when I originally installed XP from scratch it told
me to press a key to install drivers for it?
Possibly - I'd install the new SATA drive in your PC as a second hard disk,
boot up Windows XP and get the drive recognised, installing drivers if
required.
Then boot off the Acronis recovery CD/partition and clone the drive. You
should then be able to remove the old IDE drive and the new SATA will become
your C: boot drive with the drivers already in place.
3. I've not bought the SATA drive yet, so if it is likely to cause
problems I may just buy an equivalent sized IDE drive. Does a SATA drive
have any advantage over an IDE drive considering I won't be using any kind
of RAID.
The SATA drive I've got benchmarks ~50% faster than an IDE bought around the
same time. That said, new IDE drives might be equally as fast.
Cheers, Rob.
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